[OSM-dev] Mapnik Installation Problem

[Dane Springmeyer]

Martin,

On Jan 29, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

> Dane, again thank you for your reply. With your help I managed relink
> to /usr/local/lib (temporary moved the libicu) and finally pass the
> configure procedure.


Glad you could get icu linking working with that workaround.

Good news is that as of r1649 of Mapnik trunk (and in the upcoming  
Mapnik 0.7.1 release) this workaround should no longer be needed (http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/484 
)

> Compiling stopped with this error:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mapnik-users@lists.berlios.de/ 
> msg02107.html
>

Also fixed (http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/517).

> Step 1 and 2 didn't work, but after commenting out what 3) suggested
> it passed. This does mean there are no shapeindexes?

It means the command line utility to generate indexes will not be  
available. But, existing indexes will still work, like the ones  
provided along with the osm coastline shapefiles.

>
> 2010/1/29 Dane Springmeyer <blake at hailmail.net>:
>> Too old for what? Not Mapnik 0.7.0, which again works with ubuntu- 
>> repository
>> boost and icu. If it did not them please give me details.
>
>
> no, I can't tell but I think you're right: before installing Mapnik
> 0.7 I tried to install from svn (0.8?). That didn't work and I updated
> icu and boost. After that didn't work I tried mapnik 0.7, so I already
> had updated them before I tried mapnik 0.7.
>

Okay, gocha.

> Again thanks for your help,
>
> I try some rendering

You are welcome, have fun!

Dane